| Ref ID | 561 |
| First Author | F. Wuytack |
| Journal | SYSTEMATIC REVIEWS |
| Year Of Publishing | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6323681/pdf/13643_2018_Article_924.pdf |
| Keywords |
• General medical • Risk of bias • Inference • Cochrane |
| Problem(s) |
• Limited quality assessment or no risk of bias • Flawed risk of bias undertaken |
| Article Type | Empirical |
| Article Subtype | Cross-sectional survey/Methodological systematic review |
| First Author Country | Ireland |
| Aim | To assess the consistency in the risk of bias assessment for sequence generation of randomised trials in 64 Cochrane and 36 non-Cochrane reviews in 2016-2017. Additionally to explore the reviewers’ judgement of the quality of evidence for the related outcomes |
| Level of Investigation | Descriptive |
| Summary of Findings | Just under half of non-Cochrane reviews did not conduct a risk of bias assessment. Only one in ten non-Cochrane reviews reported the reasons for ascribing trials with high risk of bias for sequence generation |
| Number of systematic reviews included | 100 |
| Number of eligible systematic reviews assessed | 274 |
| Treatment impacted | No |
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| Interpretation impacted | Not Applicable |
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